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Genesis Launches Whale Sized Crypto-Loan Service

This week the institutional over-the-counter (OTC) digital currency service, Genesis Global Trading, announced it’s creating a lending subsidiary called Genesis Capital that will offer cryptocurrency loans for a fixed period of time.

Also Read: More Infrastructure Support Joins the Bitcoin Cash Ecosystem

Market Maker Lending Services

Genesis Launches Whale Sized Crypto-Loan ServiceGenesis Capital will be a new lending firm for institutional investors that provides the opportunity to borrow a wide variety of digital currencies. The new subsidiary believes individuals and businesses will need cryptocurrency loans so they can deploy market making strategies, short spot, or use as additional capital to jumpstart a project. As the digital asset scene continues to grow, Genesis Capital thinks it’s time to strike the iron while it’s hot.

“We believe now is a great time to offer an institutional-focused lending service because it will increase general liquidity in the marketplace, encourage new financial institutions to participate in a two-sided market and increase the working capital that companies use to scale their digital currency-centric businesses,” explains Genesis Capital’s announcement.

Genesis Capital can now offer borrow on bitcoin, ether, ether classic, litecoin, ripple, bitcoin cash, zcash and other digital currencies in sizes from $100,000 upwards over fixed terms.

Genesis Launches Whale Sized Crypto-Loan Service

Up to $5 Million for Two Week to Six Month Loans

The company says being an existing cryptocurrency institutional market maker it can envision hedge funds, both spot and derivative brokerage services, and other use cases for large loans. Interested firms can fill out a form that asks for digital currency lending amounts between $100,000 to $5Mn+ USD worth of digital currencies according to the website’s submission page.

Genesis Capital says it plans to leverage its own OTC services and describes one example of lending a large block short-sale position. Borrowers will have access to Genesis Trading’s OTC platform after completing the onboarding process and will be able to initiate shorts utilizing various cryptocurrencies.

The firm’s website also details it is a regulated company that follows Federal MSB/Fincen regulatory statutes. Loan durations can be between two weeks to six months and the company explains it takes USD collateral. After the onboarding is complete Genesis says the digital currencies will be delivered “straight to your wallet.”

What do you think about Genesis Capital’s OTC-style loan service for institutional investors? Let us know in the comments below.


Images via Pixabay, and Genesis Capital.


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The Litecoin Foundation Launches the #GrandparentsExplainCrypto Contest

  • #GrandparentsExplainCrypto

    The Litecoin Foundation is calling on YOU!

    Understanding cryptocurrency is, of course, a critical piece to adoption. While many early adopters today are already part of the broader technology community or come from digitally savvy generations, in order for cryptocurrency to live up to its world changing potential everyone needs to have a basic understanding of the technology and its impact.

    This is why we’ve launched our #GrandparentsExplainCrypto Contest!

    Here’s How it Works:

    Contestants will create and submit videos (2min max length) of their grandparent(s) explaining cryptocurrency to the world for a chance to win some awesome prizes (below). Of course, if you are a grandparent yourself you can submit your own video!

    It’s often said that the best way to understand something is to teach it yourself. And that’s exactly what we want our crypto grandparents to do.

    Why You Should Get Involved:

    Well, if being part of a revolution that has the chance to improve the lives of each and every global citizen isn’t enough, then there’s some pretty cool prizes that might pique your interest:

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    • Submissions must be no more than two minutes in length.
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    • Deadline for submissions is March 15, 2018

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Source: https://litecoin-foundation.org/2018/02/the-litecoin-foundation-launches-the-grandparentsexplaincrypto-contest/

Equifax to Notify 2.4 Million More Consumers Affected in Hack

Equifax Inc., the credit-reporting firm that suffered a massive data breach last year, said it will notify an additional 2.4 million U.S. consumers that they were affected by the hack.

The customers were among the 145.5 million people whose identities were stolen last year, but Equifax was unable to confirm who they were at the time because only partial driver’s license information was taken, the Atlanta-based credit-reporting company said Thursday in a statement. The consumers will be notified and the firm will offer them free credit-monitoring and identity-protection services.

Equifax disclosed the cyberattack in September, resulting in Congressional hearings and the departure of then Chief Executive Officer Richard Smith. The stock also has taken a beating, slumping 21 percent since the disclosure. Paulino do Rego Barros Jr. was named interim CEO and the company hired Jamil Farshchi from Home Depot Inc. last month as chief information security officer in an effort to boost its oversight.

“We continue to take broad measures to identify, inform and protect consumers who may have been affected by this cyberattack,” Barros said in the statement.

For more on the Equifax data breach, check out the Decrypted podcast:

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-01/equifax-to-notify-2-4-million-more-consumers-affected-in-hack?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

You Can Now Turn Bitcoin Cash Into Dollars with the BitPay Card

In December we shared BitPay’s plans to process payments on multiple blockchains. Today we’re introducing the next step, and we’re starting with our BitPay VisaÂź Prepaid Card. You can order a BitPay Card for $9.95 and pay with Bitcoin Cash, and you can load your card with dollars using Bitcoin Cash.

The BitPay Card is a VisaŸ prepaid card that you can use at VisaŸ -accepting merchants online and in person. Since we introduced the card, you have been able to load it with a dollar balance via BitPay. With our BitPay mobile wallet app, your load transactions can happen in just a few clicks and a swipe from your smartphone.

With the addition of Bitcoin Cash support, you now can load your BitPay Card with dollars using either Bitcoin (BTC)** or Bitcoin Cash (BCH).

These two blockchains have differing exchange rates, network fees, and confirmation times. You can do a side by side comparison whenever you are making a payment so you can decide which payment method works best for you.

You and BitPay Card users like you will be the first BitPay platform users to get access to our Bitcoin Cash payment processing. We look forward to your feedback as we prepare to introduce Bitcoin Cash to BitPay’s merchant processing platform.


For US Residents:The BitPay VisaÂź Prepaid Card is issued by Metropolitan Commercial Bank, member FDIC, pursuant to a license from Visa, U.S.A. Inc. “Metropolitan” and “Metropolitan Commercial Bank” are registered trademarks of Metropolitan Commercial Bank © 2014. Use of the Card is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable Cardholder Agreement and fee schedule, if any.

 

Source: https://blog.bitpay.com/bitpay-card-bitcoin-cash/

Cambridge to use XRP for Faster Global Payments

Cambridge Global Payments — a subsidiary of FLEETCOR Technologies and a leading global provider of commercial payment solutions — is launching a pilot program to use XRP in cross-border payment flows through xRapid.

Cambridge currently has over 13,000 clients around the world and handles $20 billion in international transactions annually. Incorporating XRP in those flows will provide their clients with a cross-border payments experience that is significantly faster, cheaper and more transparent.

Cambridge joins five major financial institutions who have publicly announced that they are piloting xRapid, including Cuallix, MoneyGram, IDT Corporation, Mercury FX and Western Union.

They are also exploring xCurrent, Ripple’s enterprise software for messaging and international transaction settlement currently used by over 100 financial institutions.

Cambridge looks to use xRapid to improve their customer experience

Cambridge works with businesses, large and small, to facilitate critical and secure payments for fuel, toll, lodging, and general payables through its own proprietary payment networks in North America, Latin America, Europe and Australasia.

These international payment flows allow for a streamlined experience for customers who depend on Cambridge to ensure their businesses stay healthy and expand. With xRapid, Cambridge aims to provide an even better experience for those customers.

Mark Frey, chief operating officer for Cambridge Global Payments, is confident that blockchain powered solutions like xRapid can not only help Cambridge improve their customers’ payments journey, but also spur critical innovation in their industry.

“We are excited for the insights this pilot program is expected to deliver, and we will use that information to help both Cambridge and FLEETCOR develop our use cases for blockchain in international payments,” said Frey.

“We strive to deliver best-in-class cross-border payments services, with speed and transparency. We look forward to exploring how Ripple can help us continue to improve the customer experience using new technology.”

Continued adoption of digital assets will revolutionize cross-border payments

As Cambridge and more financial institutions begin to use xRapid to source liquidity, capital locked up around the world required in today’s fractured system for international payments can become available and put to use in new ways.

Ripple’s director of business development, Danny Aranda, believes that partners like Cambridge recognize the revolutionary potential using XRP has for financial institutions.

“We’re focused on working with partners like Cambridge that understand the benefits of digital assets and are serious about using XRP to overcome the inefficiencies in the global payment system,” said Aranda. “We look forward to collaborating with Cambridge during this pilot to enhance the speed and transparency of cross-border payments for their clients.”

The efficiency of cheaper and on-demand international payments using digital assets like XRP together with the release of dormant capital, is an important step forward toward Ripple’s mission of establishing an Internet of Value, where money can move like information.

Source: https://ripple.com/insights/cambridge-use-xrp-faster-global-payments/

Bitcoin bull Bill Miller says bubbles are ‘necessary to bring capital into the market’

Fund manager and bitcoin bull Bill Miller told Fox News Thursday that the recent collapse in the price of digital currencies should not deter investors, but serve as a gauge of the future potential of digital currencies and the blockchain technology.

Major cryptocurrencies lost as much as 50% since peaking mid-December, with the No.1 digital currency, bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.70% falling from $19,694.68 to below $6,000 in six weeks causing many investors to put digital currencies in the bubble category.

That doesn’t worry Miller.

‘Bubbles are necessary to bring capital into the market to see if these innovations are actually going to stand.’

Bill Miller, chairman and CIO of Miller Value Partners

Miller, who founded Miller Value Partners in 2016, has been a longstanding bitcoin devotee. In December, Miller said that one of his funds, MVP 1, was 50% invested in bitcoin, and according to The Wall Street Journal, the fund had made more than $150 million in October when the price of bitcoin was under $6,000.

Read: Bitcoin and ether are both bubbles, says Goldman investment chief

Miller rose to fame as a stock picking fund manager at Legg Mason, where he put together a 15-year streak in which he beat the S&P 500 SPX, -1.33% The financial crisis brought Miller and his fund low, with bets on banking and housing failing to pay off.

As more pundits weigh in on the bitcoin bubble debate, Miller added that the rapid price rise wasn’t a bubble but a sign the technology is set to shake up common conceptions in the financial industry.

“What I observed with bitcoin is that it’s following a very time-honored path of disruptive innovation going all the way back to the printing press, railroad, electricity, radio in the 1920s, biotech, the internet,” Miller added.

Miller’s comments differ from those of hedge-fund manager Paul Singer, who in a note to clients in January, said that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies “will likely be described as one of the most brilliant scams in history.”

Miller Value Partners has $2.34 billion in assets under management, according to its website.

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